Teacher Questions: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Research with Respect to the Mentally Handicapped. Working Paper 17.1.

Hillman, Stephen B.

Reviewed is research dealing with teacher questions and their effects on mentally retarded children. Cited are studies involving classification systems for questions, patterns of teachers' questioning, training of questioning behaviors, and effects of questions on normal students. Among implications noted for mentally retarded persons are the needs for further research on the generalization effects of questions and in the area of validation. (CL)